Sun ‘n Fun (SNF)

The truth is you have so many choices when shopping for aircraft that this column offers perhaps its most useful function: helping you sift through the many aircraft you could fly. If you find a number of aircraft you like, how can you narrow your choices to find the one that best fits your needs? […]

Sun n’ Fun’s Paradise City is home to Lakeland-Linder International Airport’s grass strip where homebuilts, ultralights, gyrocopters, LSAs, and the like make their base camp during the week of the Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo’s displays, demos, and flying. It is also the home of the STOL Corral, which this year was open to the […]

Textron Aviation said it agreed to deliver 15 new Cessna 172 Skyhawks to Epic Flight Academy as part of a plan to expand the flight school’s fleet. The companies announced the deal during the recent Sun n’ Fun Aerospace Expo. Epic, based at New Smyrna Beach, Florida (KEVB), has been training pilots since 1999. Its […]

This week at Sun ’n Fun has been a revelation.

Sun ’n Fun will be a ’€œtemplate’€ for this summer’s AirVenture.

You might not spot the significance at first glance, but the backstories are big news to the folks in Vero and their customers.

Sun ’n Fun acknowledges the people who have made the show possible but seldom get the recognition they deserve.

The show has indeed gone on, and attendees and exhibitors alike are thrilled to be here in Lakeland. But there are a couple of unanswered questions about this most unusual aviation event.

Way more than a traveling party, this group of avid pilots does a lot for the Florida aviation community.

The crowds were much lighter than organizers seemed to expect, which was good. But safety protocols broke down big time in one location. Then again, maybe that’s the whole idea? And how much should we care?